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This week I talk about:
The dispiriting nature of the lockdown
The disputed science around the Covid-19 threat
Lord Sumption’s piece in the Mail On Sunday
Why Liberty is not an optional extra
Freedom, fulfilment and citizenship
Will the lockdown change our views on the social contract?
Music and art during the lockdown
Shutting down a string quartet
Scepticism versus ‘truther’ conspiracies
This week I talk about:
Liberty, citizenship and flourishing
Owning my basic white guy-ness
Humanism and civil liberties
Nihilism and wokeness
Human nature and grand statements
My problems with the red pill movement
Good Trump/Bad Trump reflections
Propaganda everywhere
This week I talk about:
Why I have had a break in podcasts
Watching the UK become a ‘command society’
Democratic audit and hysteria
How Fear Works by Frank Furedi (book)
Hysteria and public consent
Peter Hitchens contra mundum
Aldous Huxley on propaganda and hysteria
Vigilance in moments of social weakness
The hatred of dissent
Fake dissent and the mainstream media
A wee song to end off on
This week I talk about:
Avoiding reactive Culture War clashes
Presenting your own world view robustly
Picking your battles
Feminism and Handmaid’s Tale hysteria
True gender oppression in Islamic dictatorships
Bill Burr’s new special
Political correctness and the woke blackout
Passive aggressive woke tactics
This week I talk about:
My recent gig
Good songwriters vs showoff musos
Some interesting songs
Cultivating individuality
Mill, Wilde and eccentricity
Tulsi Gabbard (hot) and free speech
Identity politics and alarmist media
The real enemy is not Trump or Boris
This week I talk about:
Dave Chappelle’s new special
Speaking truth to power
How the woke types became a new aristocracy
The loss of religion
Divided times and wokeness
Douglas Murray on mob outrage
The moral vacuum and ideology
This week I talk about:
Bank holiday bohemianism
Creative routines
Introverts and extroverts
Personhood and relationships
The modern tendency to undermine
Elvis and perfect imperfection
This week I talk about:
My weekend in Bradford
Provincial architecture
A run-in with a train attendant
Finding some old books from uni
The Delian League of ancient Greece
The Athenian ‘Empire” and the EU
Plans for more music
Forthcoming book review
This week I talk about:
Different creative processes
The chaos of the artistic life
Anxiety and fear
Jordan Peterson on fear and suffering
The role of art and belief systems
Chaos, order and being in the zone
This week I talk about:
More Beatles geeking out
Jordan Peterson’s impact on me
Ideological thinking vs authentic thinking
Reactive culture and nuance
American shootings and ideological reaction
The podcast currently has 60 episodes available.